Welcome Faye, here, have some squirrel on a stick. Looks like you could use a meal. Hey whoa WHOA.... what are you doing! Don't bite that man!

She's got no Charisma but a lot of Agility. Neat.

Welcome to Faye. I wonder if she'll let you learn more about her as you travel together.

Faye continues to be creepy AF.

Real name: Justin Case

Game / Platform: Fallout New Vegas / Xbox 360

Nickname:

Status: New Toon!

Race: Caucasian

Gender: Prettyboy

Age: 19-ish

Religion:

Reputation:

Alignment:

SPECIAL: S5, P4, E6, C8, I6, A6, L5 ---- (Notice the high Charisma!)

Tagged skills: Guns, Melee Weapons, Speech

Traits: Loose Cannon, Small Frame (+Agility)

Place of birth:

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance: Justin Case in da house

Eyes: green

Build:

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing:

Miscellaneous: Justin Case will not be doing the Main Quest, but otherwise, I'm not sure what he'll get into. He is sort of a like a test character, to get me back into the game!

-- Yes, I did use a page full of Justin Beiber images to make Justin Case. I also made an effort to choose Attributes and Traits which mirror the pop star. So, Small Frame (Beiber is agile for sure), lots of Charisma. Only difference is my Justin will be good at Melee Weapons.

Oh yeah, the real Justin is a prankster and also kind of annoying so I chose Loose Cannon for his other trait.


Theme songs:

Biography/Life History:

Guns, Melee Weapons, Speech

That's a good combo for New Vegas.

I wondered if he was inspired by Justin Bieber. You know, just in case.

Nice haircut!

OMG, its the Biebs! I was originally thinking maybe Leo DeCaprio. But he's kind of an old fogey nowadays.

Ha it's going to be fun getting sunglasses / outfits for the Biebs.

Hey Lopov, isn't there a "soft save" point while we're in Goodsprings, still doing the tutorial? There is a point during which we can save our stats, character looks, race, and so on, but this option happens later, right?

I'm just wondering if I save this soft save, I can maybe use it to make other characters in the future. So I don't have to start all over with the doctor and all that.

There is a point at the end of the tutorial that is just like in the Fallout 3 and 4, and Oblivion, where you can completely rebuild your character. Face, attributes, skills, etc... It is at the end of the little quest you go on with Sunny to clear out the geckos from the water faucets.

Oh, and does Justin have a cousin named... Justin Thyme?

HUh, so Fallout 4 also has that convenient save point, for those who don't want to do the entire tutorial over again? That's good. So Skyrim is the only odd game. - I mean, I enjoyed it yesterday, but I plan on making other characters.

Ha ha yeah, I have considered Justin Time as a name as well. I only chose Justin Case because it comes first, alphabetically. But there are a lot of silly names which can be used in Fallout because it's more modern, yet which would be out of place in ES games.

Game Fallout

Real name: Stu Pitt

Creation Date: May 25, 2023, 10:20 PM

Nickname: Stuey!

Status: Pwned

Race:

Gender: Male

Age: 25

SPECIAL: He's a dumb oaf. Strong... but stupitt. I specifically made him so that he doesn't have to use guns, because I don't entirely understand the concept of using guns in an isometric game yet.

S = 10
P = 4
E = 9
C = 4
I = 2
A = 6
L = 5

Tagged skills: Gambling, Melee Weapons, Unarmed

Perks:

Traits: Fast Metabolism, Heavy Handed

Place of birth:

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance:

Eyes:

Build:

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing:

Magic abilities or powers:

Miscellaneous: I picked up Fallout, the very first game, and Stu Pitt is my very first character!

Not sure if I'm liking this game; the controls are really weird. It was only $2.49 on GoG though.

Theme song:

Biography/Life History: Stu got killed by a pack of mole rats! The end.

Wow, Fallout 1. Now that is a blast from the past. I have it laying around, but have not played it in years and years.

There really is nothing special to using ranged weapons though. It is just equip the weapon in your hand, then in combat just click on who you want to shoot. If I remember correctly.

Ok, I just tried it. You have the gun selected in your hud. When combat starts, you click on the gun. A red crosshair will come up in place of your mouse cursor. Move it over what you want to shoot, and a number will show up with your percentage chance to hit. Click, and you fire.

Shooting takes action points, so you will see your AP meter decrease. But that is the same with using any weapons.

Yeah, I've been curious for a while about the earliest FO games, mostly because I want to experience their stories. Watched a let's play video months ago, etc.


Anyway. Coool, great.... I am glad you responded. Someone who's played this game before, since Lopov's not around. Okay, so we click on the weapon first, in the HUD? Kay I'll try that whenever I'm gaming next. Do we have to click on the weapon for every new enemy, though?

Last night I was physically clicking the knife which Stu has in his inventory, and dragging it right over the paper doll of Stu, Morrowind style. This doesn't work! ... Which is partially why I made sure he's got Unarmed as a skill. I actually chose that skill because I anticipated I'd get stuck on this. EDIT: I get it now. Watching a LP video as I'm gaming. We don't drag items over the doll, we drag them into boxes (ITEM 1, for instance) below the paper doll.


Yeah, the AP thing is annoying. It keeps slowing down the action with "You need to get more Action Points" messages or some such. I don't really get how that works, yet.

Is Stu Pitt related to Brad? To quote the brilliant philosopher Forest Gump, "Stu Pitt is as Stu Pitt does."

Ha ha ha nice!!! I hadn't thought of Brad, actually!

There is a DLC for Fallout 3 called The Pitt which takes place in Pittsburgh, so that's where part of the idea came from. Also, if you've ever watched The Simpsons, Bart would sometimes make prank calls using funny names, and I'm pretty sure Stu Pitt was one of them.

Renee, Action Points are part of pretty much every turn based game, which the early Fallout games are. There is only so much you can do in a turn. Everything costs action points, shooting, reloading, moving, etc... Once you are out of points your turn ends. Then the next character or monster takes their turn. Etc...

MM hmm I get it now. Basically, every time the PC runs out of AP there's a box we have to click (called Turn, I think) which moves the fight to whoever's turn is next.

A Fallout 1 character? Now there's a game I haven't tried.

Game Fallout

Real name: Greg Arius

Creation Date: June 4, 2023, 6:05 PM

Nickname:

Status: Deceased

Race:

Gender: Male

Age: 21

SPECIAL: Greg Arius is obviously talkative, intelligent, but not so worldly for combat situations.

S = 4
P = 5
E = 4
C = 9
I = 7
A = 6
L = 5

Tagged skills: Barter, Small Guns, Speech

Perks:

Traits: Fast Metabolism, Skilled

Place of birth: Vault 13

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance:

Eyes:

Build:

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing:

Magic abilities or powers:

Miscellaneous:

Theme song:

Biography/Life History: Greg Arius grew up well-schooled, trained in the arts, but just generally has been able to talk his way out of anything.

He died while trying to help the village of Shady Sands (I think) figure out their brahmin problem. Greg got pwned by a giant radscorp, basically. 🦂

When I first played Fallout 1 (back when I was in high school), I used the "Albert Cole" premade character who was also a charisma-based build. I was fairly new to games with dialogue, so it blew my mind that I could talk (or outright lie) my way out of bad situations.

Albert Cole, now there's a name I can learn to like.

It's been a long time since I played the original Fallout. Other than its 3rd person having an overhead perspective looking really small on a 12 inch monitor I've forgotten most of how it works.

Oh, and the intro is bizarre. Keeping the peace in Canada!

It still holds up, IMO. Playing it after the more recent games, it's a bit of a shock at how desolate it all feels. Everything's hardscrabble and desperate. Even if you win, humanity's future feels far from assured.

Fallout 2's more of a mixed bag. The game's almost too sprawling for its own good, and some of the endgame areas (particularly San Francisco) feel pretty half-baked. I'm not a big fan of how many pop culture references there are, either.

There are premade characters? Thinking about it, there certainly are. I skipped right past that option.

Game Fallout

Real name: Wyatt Hertz

Creation Date: August 16, 2023, 1:30 PM

Nickname:

Status: Operating

Race: The original FO does not give us a choice, but I envision Wyatt to be a white cowboy type of dude.

Gender: Male

Age: 30

SPECIAL:

S = 4
P = 6
E = 7
C = 4
I = 7
A = 6
L = 6

Tagged skills: Doctor, First Aid, Small Guns

Perks:

Traits: Drug Resistant, Fast Metabolism

Place of birth: Vault 13

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance:

Eyes:

Build:

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing: Vault13 jumpsuit

Miscellaneous: Greg Arius got pwned and so the next interesting name in my folder is Wyatt Hertz. As his name implies, he's got some sort of training in medical fields.

Theme song:

Biography/Life History:

Medic : Hello, my name is Wyatt Hertz.

Patient : recites a list ailments ending with, "Sorry I didn't catch your name".

Once again, awesome name. I hope he gets farther than Greg did.

All he needs is a sidekick named Doc Holly Daze.

Me and my silly names, right?

Doc Holly Daze! Maybe I'll give an NPC that name.

Real name: Justin Tyme

Game / Platform: Fallout New Vegas / PC

Nickname:

Status: New Toon!

Race: Caucasian

Gender: Dude

Age: 20something

Religion:

Reputation:

Alignment:

SPECIAL: S6, P4, E6, C5, I6, A7, L7

Tagged skills: Guns, Melee Weapons, Speech

Traits: Early Bird, Good Natured

Place of birth:

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance: He is just the white guy at the start of the game. I did the same thing in Skyrim on 11/11/11, rolled with the default guy.

Eyes: green

Hair Style: Smooth Wave

Build:

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing:

Miscellaneous: Justin Case was a guy I rolled on Xbox a while back. He's the guy who looks sort of like Justin Beiber. Well, I couldn't much for him to do, lost interest in NV altogether, actually. Gonna try again though, on PC.

Justin Tyme is gonna be Justin Case's cousin. He's not a Beiber clone. I'm not even sure what he is, actually. I'll probably play him dead-is-dead, see how far he gets. Although I do roleplay all my guys & gals, Justin won't have much of a story.


Theme songs:

Biography/Life History:
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Does Justin have a brother named Nikov?

WHOA... nice job!!! I like Nikov Tyme better than Justin Tyme!

See, now that I'm playing on PC I can make Nikov as an NPC. Maybe he'll be Justin's brother or something.

My neighbors have a friend named Justin, and I use the Justin Time on him all the... well... time.

Was hoping there might be some different now that I've got a new hard drive installed. Tried starting New Vegas using Justin's character save but the game just crashes! To remind: Just after speaking to Doc Mitchell the game does a nosedive. Only difference is now it CTDs instead of freezes.

But maybe that's because that game has already been started, and for some reason it's corrupt. Will try making a brand hew character at some point but right now the spirit for gaming is kaput.

You're not using any mods at all, right? Pure vanilla game? Also, try disabling all vanilla DLCs.

Linda Hand, created in 2019, is now on PC, so time for a update.

Real name: Linda Hand

Creation Date: May, 2019 (original Bday info lost. )

Game / Platform: PC

Status: Deceased
Level: 10

Race: Caucasian

Gender: F

Age: 19

Religion: Jewish (Though she's lapsed whatever devotion she once had).

Reputation: Goody

Alignment: Neutral Good, Lawful tendencies

SPECIAL: S3 P5 E6 C7 I7 A7 L5

Tagged skills:

Traits: Day Tripper, Educated, Finesse, Good Natured, Lead Belly, Retention, Scribe Assistant, Toughness, Trigger Discipline

Place of birth: Grants Pass, Oregon

Home: Novac, Motel del Rey

What they do for a living: scavenging

Factions: NCR, though her involvement is weak.

Companions: Veronica

Love interests: Veronica. I get the feeling Linda is bi, though. She'll probably meet some guy.

Physical Appearance: Here she is
Eyes:

Build: slender

Habits: Speaking to as many people as possible.

Weapons of preference: small guns. She has no real favorite. Her favorite is whatever she's got on her person.

Clothing: Leather Armor. She likes wearing Prewar Dresses when in peaceful areas.

Miscellaneous: Linda is my second New Vegas character. She is not dead-is-dead, since she's got a story which I want to carry out, possibly for several years.

Theme song:

Biography/Life History: Linda comes to Nevada from whatever vault there might be in Oregon. Before getting ambushed, she had been traveling with Karen Aboucha (my first NV creation) and her brother Les Havva Hand. Les wanted to move to Vegas, because he's supposed to be an entertainer, and Vegas is theoretically the perfect place to sing & dance. Problem is, they got ambushed, and Les initially cannot be found.


Being unsure of what to do, where to go (nobody knows what happened to her brother) Linda eventually gets suckered into some initial Goodsprings-area quests.

(Small spoiler, Les's game will be on PC someday. It'll require mods. (Edit:) and now that's on PC I can actually make that quest idea come true.)

Real name: Nikov Tyme

Game / Platform: Fallout New Vegas / PC

Nickname: Hasn't got one, just don't call him "Nikky."

Status: New Toon!

Race: Caucasian / Russian

Gender: мужчина

Age: 40

Religion:

Reputation:

Alignment: Lawful Evil

SPECIAL: S8, P5, E7, C3, I6, A8, L3

(strong, capable, agile, but he sucks with people, and hasn't had the best luck in the past... some computer training)

Tagged skills: Guns, Melee Weapons, Science

Traits: Hot Blooded, Trigger Discipline

Place of birth: Russia

Home:

What they do for a living:

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance: Chargen Pic /// "I vill break you."



(New Vegas does have an Age slider. I pushed this all the way to the right.)

Eyes: blue

Hair Style: Sarge + Chin Dusting

Build: stocky

Habits:

Weapons of preference: Broad Machete, Sturdy Caravan Shotgun

Clothing: Lightweight Metal Armor (he started game with this, along with a Wasteland Settler Outfit.

Miscellaneous: Nikov Tyme is Justin Tyme's uncle, who comes to America from Russia. I used an alternate start to make this possible, so he starts outside of Hunter's Farm instead of Goodsprings.

I chose "Immigrant" for his background. "Looking to escape your old life and past demons, you've traveled to the wilderness on foot (+10 Survival), staying off the roads to avoid thugs, yadda yadda...

I chose "Getting By" for "How well off are you?" This means he doesn't start the game with a whole lot of stuff, and indeed he didn't begin the game with the huge pile of items all those DLC throw at us. There's also a "Cash Strapped" option for this choice, but he started the game completely naked, with nothing in inventory. That's going too far.


Theme songs:

Biography/Life History:

Welcome, Nikov!

"Who speaks? A crow? Bah! In Russia, crow means taste good."

I nailed it, right? He looks like an old Russian Cosmonaut or some such.

I think I might start a questionnaire thread. We get to ask Nikov anything here in this forum, which fills out his personality a bit.

Right, I'm back folks! But my gaming PC is out of commission. I dropped it after blowing dust out back in July, and this caused its hard drive to fail. I already replaced the drive last year, so I know how long it takes to get a new one installed, and build all those modded games. 🖥That'll take a long time...I won't be gaming until January, is my thinking. So instead I got an Xbox, brand-new Series X. There. I'm good for Elder Scrolls VI: Valenwood, bam!Now I can also try all these games I been putting off for years: Kingdom Come Deliverance, Fallout 76, and so on... in fact let's start with

Game / Platform: Fallout 4 / Xbox 🎮

Nickname: Jenn X
Real name: Jennifer Xiomara

Creation Date: September 8, 2025, 5:26 PM


Game / Platform: Fallout 4 / Xbox 🎮

Status: Wcked awesome
Level: 2

Race: Caucasian, I guess. Did they get rid of official races in this game?

Gender: Chick

Age: 25

Religion: hard to say, since she was born on the west coast (land of cults and all sorts of alternative religions) but moved to the Boston area at some point (Roman Catholic most common) but as a Renee toon I'm thinking she's not religious at all?
Reputation: Scoundrel most likely
Alignment: don't know yet. Some kind of Good, most likely.

SPECIAL: S2 P6 E5 C6 I4 A4 L1

Tagged skills: Uh oh, looks like they got rid of these too. If these were in the game I'm thinking Small Guns, Sneak, and maybe Science.

Traits: ?

Place of birth: San Francisco

Home:

What they do for a living: scavenging,

Factions:

Companions:

Love interests:

Physical Appearance: Here she is. Her looks will probably change, as I rushed a bit going "wow, whoa...wowwwwwwwwwwwwww....." and completely missed any sort of hairstyles. 👩🏽‍🦰 probably start over with her. The beginning of the game confused me!

I modeled Jen's face from the Gen X'er in blue in this pic.
Eyes: deep chestnut

Hair: Jet Black with a "Femme Fatale" style. Hopefully I can mod her hair with little girl barrettes....she's supposed to be Generation X.


Build: halfway between "large" and "slender"... she supposedly did give birth recently, right?

Habits:

Weapons of preference:

Clothing: Greaser Jacket & jeans so far. Being inspired by the long-ago Generation X (1964 thru 1980) Jenn is going to be after vintage, "quirky" hipster-looking clothes.

Miscellaneous: The idea for Jenn X came from a bank loan commercial I saw while lying around for hours in the hospital. This commercial featured three generations of customers: Jen X, Jen Y, Jen Z. That's all it take for me to come up with a good, silly name in one of these games, an innocuous commercial which makes me giggle, perhaps. Jenn's last name "Xiomara" comes from one of my mom's real-life housekeepers. I never heard this name before, and decided to use it somehow for a future character somehow after meeting Xiomara in July of this year.

Theme song: Nirvana's Sappy is about a lady in stifling, unhappy relationship with a man who uses her, which is how I sort of imagine Jenn's story begins with her husband somehow. Typical couple who married too young, maybe for the wrong reasons, etc. He's a control freak who's accused her of cheating, and maybe she actually did cheat a bit because there wasn't much love between the two of them. One of the last arguments they had was when the VaultTec guy showed up at their door. Jenn and her man argued who would answer the door....their very last fight before everything went wrong with the world, making their arguement seem petty and unimportant compared to what came next. :hubba hubba: Right?

Biography/Life History: I don't know much about her yet, except Jenn feels she was born in the wrong century. As do I, sort of, although with me it's the wrong decade.

Whoo! Fallout 4 train is leaving the station! I gotta rebuild my load order before too long, I haven't played since the spring.

Jenn X!

You should make her skin green, and name her Wicked...

Rebuild load order? how do you do this? Honestlly, I am pretty confused about modding on Xbox so far. Downloaded three so far from Bethesda.net, but where do they show up? I don't see them in the Start menu > mods, help!!!

Green skin... Yea...

And yea, here I am, about to run around the Commonwealth at 2 in the morning.

Oh nice, it's raining again! Soft drizzle this time. Last night it also rained in the game, but that was heavy, dark, sort of scary rain.... COLD, most likely.

Ooh, I don't know about Xbox. I play it on PC, but when I tried moving the install to a new SSD, it screwed up the modlist.

I think for Xbox you have to use the Creations now? In which case you would have to create a Bethesda.net account that you log into the Creations page with.

Correct, I've done this. Linked my Bethesda.net account between PC and Xbox, downloaded 3 mods so far, problem is I only see one of them in the in-game Mods list. Like I said modding on PC is much more direct and obvious, assuming everything's set up correctly. On Xbox everything's surprisingly vague so far.


Ah, maybe Khajiit knows. 🦁 Or maybe I'm the FIRST at Chorrol trying to mod on console.

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You talked me up!

I used mods for both Skyrim and Fallout4 on my PS4, and it is supposedly way more restrictive than XBox because of Sony. They worked great! You just go to the mods option on the start menu and download whatever you find interesting. You may do some research on load orders because some things do conflict just like on PC. There was a Reddit guide I used for Starfield on Xbox, so I’m sure there is something similar for the other Beth games that allow mods on consoles.

Edit: note that Beth may have changed the “Mods” option on the start menu to “Creations”. I think this was the direction they were trying to go and is absolutely how they did Starfield mods. They just tied them into Creations.